When kernel mode NEON was first introduced to the arm64 kernel,
every call to kernel_neon_begin()/_end() stacked resp. unstacked
the entire NEON register file, making it worthwile to reduce the
number of used NEON registers to a bare minimum, and only stack
those. kernel_neon_begin_partial() was introduced for this purpose,
but after the refactoring for SVE and other changes, it no longer
exists and was simply #define'd to kernel_neon_begin() directly.
In the mean time, all users have been updated, so let's remove
the fallback macro.
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
The crypto code currently relies on kernel_mode_begin_partial() being
available. Until the corresponding crypto patches are merged, define
this macro temporarily, though with different semantics as it cannot be
called in interrupt context.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Support for kernel-mode NEON to be nested and/or used in hardirq
context adds significant complexity, and the benefits may be
marginal. In practice, kernel-mode NEON is not used in hardirq
context, and is rarely used in softirq context (by certain mac80211
drivers).
This patch implements an arm64 may_use_simd() function to allow
clients to check whether kernel-mode NEON is usable in the current
context, and simplifies kernel_neon_{begin,end}() to handle only
saving of the task FPSIMD state (if any). Without nesting, there
is no other state to save.
The partial fpsimd save/restore functions become redundant as a
result of these changes, so they are removed too.
The save/restore model is changed to operate directly on
task_struct without additional percpu storage. This simplifies the
code and saves a bit of memory, but means that softirqs must now be
disabled when manipulating the task fpsimd state from task context:
correspondingly, preempt_{en,dis}sable() calls are upgraded to
local_bh_{en,dis}able() as appropriate. fpsimd_thread_switch()
already runs with hardirqs disabled and so is already protected
from softirqs.
These changes should make it easier to support kernel-mode NEON in
the presence of the Scalable Vector extension in the future.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
asm/neon.h doesn't have a header inclusion guard, but it should
have one for consistency with other headers.
This patch adds a suitable guard.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
The arm64 kernel assumes that FP/ASIMD units are always present
and accesses the FP/ASIMD specific registers unconditionally. This
could cause problems when they are absent. This patch adds the
support for kernel handling systems without FP/ASIMD by skipping the
register access within the kernel. For kvm, we trap the accesses
to FP/ASIMD and inject an undefined instruction exception to the VM.
The callers of the exported kernel_neon_begin_partial() should
make sure that the FP/ASIMD is supported.
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: add comment on the ARM64_HAS_NO_FPSIMD conflict and the new location]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This patch modifies kernel_neon_begin() and kernel_neon_end(), so
they may be called from any context. To address the case where only
a couple of registers are needed, kernel_neon_begin_partial(u32) is
introduced which takes as a parameter the number of bottom 'n' NEON
q-registers required. To mark the end of such a partial section, the
regular kernel_neon_end() should be used.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Add <asm/neon.h> containing kernel_neon_begin/kernel_neon_end function
declarations and corresponding definitions in fpsimd.c
These are needed to wrap uses of NEON in kernel mode. The names are
identical to the ones used in arm/ so code using intrinsics or
vectorized by GCC can be shared between arm and arm64.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
